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Hudson Wine Merchants

What Does Business Feel Like?

Mariquita and I spent last Saturday helping out our cousins, Michael and Marianne, at their wine shop, Hudson Wine Merchants, in Hudson, NY. I wrote a posting about one of our other trips up there earlier this year on how running a two-person proprietorship is an awful lot like running a larger company. Last weekend, my takeaway from working in the shop was in some ways the opposite. Yes, business is business, and yes, you worry about some of the same broad things when you run a business of any size, but it FEELS different to run a small retail shop. What does it feel like? Well, quite frankly, it feels like business. Here’s what happens at the store in…

CEO, Party of Two

We spent the weekend in Hudson, New York, a charming, urban-renewing town about two hours north of the city. My cousins Michael & Marianne opened a wine store called Hudson Wine Merchants on the main drag in town, Warren Street (343 Warren St. to be exact, you should definitely check it out if you’re ever in Hudson). The store opened for the first time Friday evening, and we had the first full day on Saturday. Mariquita and I, and some other friends of Michael & Marianne’s, helped do everything from stock the shelves, to clean the windows, to use the price tag gun (fun!), to work the register and the very fickle POS software, to watch my cousin’s daughter as…